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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (128195)	1/7/2010 2:04:42 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542245

This real so far.... NOT JUST FLORIDA.... There was something of a coup within the Republican Party of Florida this week, with right-wing activists forcing the resignation of the state party's chairman, whom the base considered insufficiently conservative. It's worth keeping in mind, though, that the fight that played out in the Sunshine State may be the first of many. A founder of the "tea party" movement said Wednesday he had a warning for Republican state leaders: Back conservative candidates or else other states will suffer the same backlash that toppled Florida's Republican Party chairman this week. "We are turning our guns on anyone who doesn't support constitutional conservative candidates," said Dale Robertson, who operates TeaParty.org out of Houston and helped start the movement nearly two years ago. He declined to say which states are next on the tea party's hit list. He said party leaders in those states would be warned privately, but the movement's wrath "will be very clear publicly" if they don't listen. "If they continue to do things like they did in Florida, it's not going to be good for them," Mr. Robertson said. "If they don't get that, and their party chairmen don't get that, they are going to be ostracized." If Dale Robertson's name sounds familiar, it's because he was photographed last year at a Tea Party rally holding a sign that read, "Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar." And now he's warning state Republican Parties to be more right-wing -- or else. It's quite a movement.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (128195)	1/7/2010 7:41:46 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542245

How real is that threat? I've given this some thought, as you can tell by my posts with John. Like John, I think we are a long way from any possibility of the teabaggers' becoming militarized. But on the slim chance that they eventually do, I'm inclined to think it would look nothing like the first Civil War. Since the armament gap between them and US Armed Forces is so great, and since it is not centered in any one geographic region, any serious militant movement would need to resort to civil disobedience and asymmetric sabotage-style attacks rather than open combat. If ten million or more refuse to file taxes, and disregard other select federal laws, they could cause some disarray. Domestic sabotage would be much harder to control and they could conceivably keep the feds tied in knots and the citizenry panicked for some time. Do I think they will go this far? Most likely not. But if they continue to become more and more alienated, and if the economy truly hits the crapper, anything is possible. Then that demagogue wouldn't need much charisma.